2010/7/22 Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Brad Jorsch <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> "Categorymembers namespace filtering is inefficient, uses ugly hack in
>> miser mode", https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19640 , is
>> also very related.
>
> I personally don't think it's worth fixing.  The likelihood of error
> in keeping the categorylinks table up-to-date with page moves is just
> too great to be worth bothering over.
We could at least partially fix it by allowing to filter by type
(file|category|page) instead of namespace, and provide a mapping from
clnamespace to cltype for backwards compatibility (6 -> file, 14 ->
category, any other number -> page).

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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